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S 2959 101th Congress Senate Taxation Government trust funds Income tax Railroad retirement plans

A bill to amend the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to extend for 2 years the transfer to the Railroad Retirement Account of income tax revenues from tier 2 benefits.

Introduced: August 2, 1990 See on congress.gov
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Aug 2, 1990
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Aug 2, 1990
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to extend for two years provisions for the transfer of tier two railroad retirement benefit taxation revenues from the general fund of the Treasury to the Railroad Retirement Account.

What's happening now August 2, 1990

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Republican 2
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McConnell, Mitch
Kentucky · Oct 2, 1990
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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · Aug 2, 1990
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2959: A bill to amend the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to extend for 2 years the transfer to the Railroad Retirement Account of income tax revenues from tier 2 benefits.. 101st Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/101-S-2959/
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"S. 2959: A bill to amend the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to extend for 2 years the transfer to the Railroad Retirement Account of income tax revenues from tier 2 benefits.." 101st Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/101-S-2959/.
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S. 2959, 101st Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/101-S-2959/.
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